Word: queered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...
...intradirectory wedding, bassoon-C to cello-D." Membership ranges from Foreign Policy Association President Samuel Hayes (viola-B) to a Manhattan night elevator operator (cello-B) who held wee-hour sessions in the coal bin of his building. Says Miss Rice: "There are a great many of us queer ducks who really love to play just for the sheer...
...homo, nola, pix, flit, queer, fag, faggot, agfay, fruit, nance, pansy, queen, she-male, mary-and a variety of other, more pungent terms...
...more than the rock or the stump which the torrent strikes for a second, yet which suffices to direct its course. It is not so much that he calculates how he is to make his career a success--how, frankly, he is to boom--but that he has a queer, shrewd power of introspection, which tells him his gifts and character are such as will make him boom...
...threatened by a starfish, go snapping across the ocean bottom like a herd of stampeding dentures. The film has its faults: it grows repetitious and tries to provide variety with music full of scubadoo cuteness. Thus, by the time the saucer plunges down for a climactic survey of the queer fish and mating crabs found at the 1,000-ft. level, most viewers will be more than ready to surface, having had all the submarine miracles a landlubber can tolerate at one sitting...